Debugging Double Standards

Description

A two-panel Gordon Ramsay meme compares two debugging situations. The left panel is labeled "FIXING BUGS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S CODE" and shows Ramsay comforting a child with the subtitle "Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous." The right panel is labeled "FIXING BUGS IN MY CODE" and shows Ramsay angrily saying "You fucking donkey." The joke captures the familiar developer bias of being charitable toward inherited messes while judging one's own mistakes with maximum contempt.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Empathy for legacy code has a very strict ownership filter: it stops matching the moment `git blame` returns your name.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Empathy for legacy code has a very strict ownership filter: it stops matching the moment `git blame` returns your name.
@Vanilla_Danette 1y

Why do I feel like it's the other way around for me?
@ifuncuran 1y

Наоборот (🔄)
@loves_frogjs 1y

It's donkey both ways